Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
I’m Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, and Going Wild is back. For our fourth season, we’ll be talking to all kinds of nature advocates, like internet sensation Alexis Nikole Nelson, also known as Black Forager, who has risked life and limb bringing edible wild plants to the masses.
Alexis Nikole Nelson:
The second that we got onto the kind of muddy path going out into the woods, we were like, “Oh, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Bear here recently.”
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
Or Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ed Yong.
Ed Yong:
You tell me that every animal around me is perceiving part of the world in a way that I don’t understand, I want to know all about all of it.
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
We’re going to hear from real-life heroes with widely different expertise and life experiences about what led them to be champions for the natural world, like policy analyst Carolina Landa, who worked to restore a butterfly species while incarcerated.
Carolina Landa:
I remember just thinking like, “That’s me. I am metamorphosizing into this person that I’m meant to be.”
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
And marine ecologist Alannah Vellacott, who plays a starring role in Samuel L. Jackson’s documentary, Enslaved.
Alannah Vellacott:
I was traveling the world and letting people know that slavery was a global enterprise and the ocean remembers.
Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant:
Together, we’ll find out how these guests, plus more, fell in love with nature and became their most extraordinary selves in season four of Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. We have brand-new episodes every week starting on Earth Day, April 22nd. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us on social media @PBSNature or learn more on www.pbs.org/nature.
